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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
Published: Apr 2007
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Retail Price: $13.95
Pages: 329
Bawdy, joyous, messy, hysterically funny, and guaranteed to offend regardless of religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, or profession Between the Bridge and the River is the debut novel by Craig Ferguson, host of CBS's The Late Late Show. Two childhood friends from Scotland and two illegitimate half-brothers from the American South suffer and enjoy all manner of bizarre experiences which, as it turns out, are somehow interconnected and, surprisingly enough, meaningful. An eclectic cast of characters includes Carl Jung, Fatty Arbuckle, Virgil, Marat, Socrates, and Tony Randall. Love, greed, hope, revenge, organized religion, and Hollywood are alternately tickled and throttled. Impossible to summarize and impossible to stop reading, this is a romantic comic odyssey that actually delivers and rewards.
You just have to jump in no pun with both feet here, and not expect anything conventional, and definitely not a linear narrative, but after a very little time, it becomes a page-turner. It is a complete sendup of superficiality and celebrity culture. It is fantastic, improbable, impossible, moving, eminently satirical, pornographic, romantic, spiritual, anti-spiritualism, and in a hilarious way, even fateful.
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